Louie Gohmert: “At this time, I yield to my friend from Florida (Mr. DeSantis). ObamaCare Mr. DeSANTIS. I thank the gentleman from…”

“At this time, I yield to my friend from Florida (Mr. DeSantis). ObamaCare Mr. DeSANTIS. I thank the gentleman from Texas. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say a few words about accountability. Normally, the way it works is that Congress can consider a piece of legislation. Maybe it passes. Maybe the President signs it. You implement it. Then the voters can decide whether they like it, whether it lived up to its billing, so to speak. With ObamaCare, it was interesting because this was rammed through Congress at the beginning of 2010; yet it is just now really being implemented. I am starting to get a lot of people in my district contacting my office who are really shocked at some of the stiff premium increases they are seeing. So I think it is useful just to review some of the promises that were made and whether any of those promises have been kept. I think what you will find is that this is a law not only that the public opposed, not only that was rammed through with no bipartisan support, but a law that in many ways is resting on false pretenses. Promise one, the President made this: it will lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year. I have not seen that true anyplace. In fact, people are seeing $2,500 increases. There was a family in California, it was reported, who saw an increase of $10,000. So I think, right here, as this is being implemented, we know that that is just not going to be the case.…”